Support for game-boards



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J. GREEN. SUPPORT FOR GAME BOARDS.

Patented Oct. 9,1894.

Inventor.

Attorny.

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J. GREEN.

SUPPORT FOR GAME BOARDS.

Patented Oct. 9,1894.

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JOHN GREEN, OF RENOVO, PENNSYLVANIA.

SUPPORT FOR GAME-BOARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 527,279, dated October 9, 1894..

Application filed February 15, 1894:. Serial No. 500,267- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN GREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Renovo, in the county of Clinton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Game-Boards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to games which are played indoors, such as parlor games, and has for its object the construction of a table to support a plurality of game boards to furnish amusementfor two or more sets or parties of players.

The invention will be fully disclosed in the following specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective showing the removable center raised out of the top; Fig. 2 a vertical section with the center in the top; Fig. 3 a top plan view with the center of the top removed; Fig. 4 a top plan view of a second game-board, and

Fig. 5 a perspective of an additional or third game-board.

Reference being had to the drawings and the letters thereon, A indicates a game-table having a primary top B, composed of a skeleton frame a and removable and reversible game-board C, forming the center of the tabletop, which may have on one side a checkerboard or any preferred game, and on the opposite side a different game-board or it may be plain to represent the top of an ordinary center table for a parlor, library or sitting room, to support books or other articles when not in use as a game-board. On the under side of theframe a at the angles of the opening are corner blocks 2) upon which the removable center rests when in the table.

D indicates a secondary or supplemental,

numbered 493,768, and in this connection forms a convenient receptacle for checkers m and the ringsused on the game board F, and is removably supported at its corners on blocks e e e e, on the under side of the top B, and of which blocks two are shown in Fig. 2.

The game-board F is provided with a number of pegs f and when in the table A forms a cover for the game-board E.

G indicates a tray which surrounds the game-board F and serves to catch the rings g when said board is used in the table A, by the sides, h of said tray filling the space between the two tops B and D, and serves to hold the board F in the game-board E, as shown in Fig. 2, the tray being held down by the removable center 0 resting on the upper edges of the sides, h of the tray. The spaces 0 between the arms of the supplemental top afiord a ready means for raising the tray out of the opening in the center of the top B.

Thegamaboard E is shown in position in the table A for playing with the center 0 removed in Fig. 3, with some of the rings g on the board F and others on the tray Gr.

The game-board E is held in the hands of the player and the marbles i manipulated to place them in the covered corners k and in the recesses Z in the field of the board.

The table A forms a support for the gameboard 0 or E to be played upon, and a receptacle or support for the three game-boards, the checkers and the rings when not in use.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is--- H 1. A support for game-boards consisting of a table having a removable game-board forming the center thereof and asupplemental top or frame supporting the primary top and pro vided with a support for a separate gameboard.

2. A support for game-boards consisting of a table having a removable game-board forming the center thereof and a supplemental top or frame supporting the primary top and pro vided with an opening in its center to support a separate game-board.

3. A support for game-boards consisting of a table having a removable game-board forming the center thereof and a supplemental top or frame supporting the primary top and provided with a support for a separate gameboard, and a game-board supported in said separate board.

4:. A support for game-boards consisting of of a table having aremovable and reversible game-board forming the center thereof, a supplemental top or frame supporting the primary top and provided with a support for a separate game-board, and a tray surrounding said game-board.

5. A support for game-boards consisting of a table provided with a removable gameboard center in the primary top thereof, a supplemental top or frame supporting the primary top and having an opening in the center thereof and supported upon suitable legs,

a game-board supported in said supplemental top and a third game-board forming atop for the seeond game-board. l

or JOHN GREEN.

Witnesses:

D. O. REINOHL, M. A. REINOHL. 

